Vortical wind turbine/ umbrella wave turbine system

ABSTRACT

This invention relates to a voluminous wind/wave turbine system, the turbine system has two wind/wave subsystems and is based on a unique volume process and optimized blades defining two power zones to harness wind and wave energy together or separately beyond the Betz limit, the vortical wind turbine subsystem has a pair of a front and back vortical blades to generate more power with satellite generators, the wave subsystem is a breakthrough for commercial applications and has a robust float vessel with toroid or polygonal pipes structure and multiple hinge mechanisms to hold multiple wave turbines against violent wave, the wave turbine has only a conversion to produce electricity constantly 24/7 with 360 degree freedom, the both subsystems are based on a shaft-less twin rotor turbomachinery and represent a new era of reliable and renewable energy at an unprecedented level of efficiency and the reliability.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application claims the benefit of provisional patent applicationSer. No. 62/986,781 filed on Mar. 8, 2020 by the present inventor.

FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH

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SEQUENCE LISTING OR PROGRAM

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This invention relates to a voluminous wind/wave turbine system, theturbine system has two wind/wave subsystems and is based on a uniquevolume process and optimized blades defining two power zones to harnesswind and wave energy together or separately beyond the Betz limit, thevortical wind turbine subsystem has a pair of a front and back vorticalblades to generate more power with satellite generators, the wavesubsystem is a breakthrough for commercial applications and has a robustfloat vessel with toroid or polygonal pipes structure and multiple hingemechanisms to hold multiple wave turbines against violent wave, the waveturbine has only a conversion to produce electricity constantly 24/7with 360 degree freedom, the both subsystems are based on a shaft-lesstwin rotor turbomachinery and represent a new era of reliable andrenewable energy at an unprecedented level of efficiency and thereliability.

The conventional wind turbine includes three or four front blades, adriving train, an power generator, a control and housing units and hasthe following problems (1) Low Efficiency. Since 1919, German physicistAlbert Betz declared that the limit for the theoretical maximumefficiency for a wind turbine is 59% or a factor of 0.59. Today in 2021,more than 100 years later, we still cannot even reach the efficiency of50%, even with all the powerful computation resources and sophisticatedCFD models, and millions spent on building turbines. Most engineeringbooks still tell us 0.40 as a practical efficiency of wind turbines,with the same limit being used for tidal or wave turbines. If wecontinue to do the same thing over the next 100 year, Mr. Betz wouldcome out of the grave and laugh at us. Maybe the limit is not right, butif we cannot even reach at least 50% efficiency, or figure out what iswrong, the rest of the effort would be futile, the formula for windturbine power should be P=½ρ(A) CpV{circumflex over ( )}3, Cp=fluiddensity, by now you know why the conventional turbine never reach even50%. A=total area blade swept area (a) The swept area would not increasewithout physical change. (b) Wind speed or the stream speed of river orocean is given by Mother Nature and cannot be increased by the turbines,so for all existing wind or wave turbines, in order to increase the outpower, there is only one way to increase diameter of blades, there is noan innovation by the old way German physicist Albert Betz descripted 100years ago (2) Safety issue includes injected broken blades, electricalfire and moving blades killing birds, and noise. Those issues causepublic fear and even legal actions and disproval of turbine projects.The injected blades can hurt marine life or humans nearby and damageboats and float structures, the electrical fires are caused byoverheating generators or short circuits, and this electrical fire candamage the turbines and can electrocute animals or humans, the noise isthe biggest negative effect for human, marine life and animals in thelong run. As we know from Navy sonar studies, it would hurt marine lifeand their reproductive abilities, and so far there are no solutions.According to the Natural Resources Defense Council, powerful underwaterOffshore high power density fluid turbine system sounds produced bysonar can output sounds of more than 200 decibels, a level that spreadssound across the ocean and severely harms sound sensitive marine lifelike whales, more and more evidences show rotor blades kill birds (3)Turbine designs issue, they have not changed too much over time, withmost of the knowledge coming from the aerospace industries, there havebeen no breakthroughs or big leaps since the first patent for gasturbines were filed in 1791 by John Barber. We see the solid shaft inevery turbine around the world, from steam turbines to wind turbines.The inherent flaw in this design is that the central passage is blockedand restricts the flow. The same shaft unfortunately has also blockedour imagination for the past 250 years, they not only block the centerpassage to reduce flow rate about 5 to 10% in comparison n with a fullport passage, but also count for 10 to 25% rotating energy for heavyshaft, as we know, the larger the shaft, the more torque the shaft cangenerate, as well more energy the shaft wastes (4) inefficient bladedesign. If turbomachinery is the soul of all turbines, then the blade isthe heart of the turbines. If blades do not work properly, any effort onthe rest of the components would be futile. The blades of turbines arelargely based on airplane blade design or propellers, while the windturbine blades are inspired by bird wings, even with advancedsimulations utilizing DEM method with advanced CFD, there have been nosignificant improvements, so what is wrong? the tip of blades causeturbulent and eddy flow and vibration due to the tip shape and bladestructure, three unbalanced blades are located on one side and causesadditional bending stress and vibration as well as wear out the bearingprematurely wearing off (5) vibration, as the shaft speed up for 10 and20 rpm with unsupported blade edges and unbalanced shaft weight understrong wind can cause uncontrollable vibrations, (6) bearing issue, theshaft is under both axial and radial load, since the bearing size is sosmall in comparison with lager diameter of blade of turbine, it isinherent problem in most cases, it is one of the main problems issue forbroken down (7) overheat issue, the most wind turbine is equipped with acooling system, it is part of energy waste (8) local restriction, themost wind farms are located in coastal areas, they need more expensivematerials to deal with seal water corrosion issue as well structuralintegrity issue, so they are heavy investment, the most wind turbine isbuilt with huge size structure in order to reach efficiency, so theyoccupy large land and are constructed with lot of materials like stealand cements as well as lot of labor in additional of environment andlegal issue for the land usage, the irony is in the land rich states,very low electricity demand, while in city or high population regainshave a fewer land for wind turbine farms, as well as legal challengesfrom local community (9) commercialization of wave turbines, so far, nocommercial-scale wave power operations now exist, although a small-scaleinstallation did operate off the coast of Portugal in 2008 and 2009. InFebruary, U.S. corporate giant Lockheed Martin announced a joint ventureto create the world's biggest wave energy project, a 62.5-megawattinstallation slated for the coast of Australia that would produce enoughpower for 10,000 homes. Scotland, surrounded by the rough waters of theAtlantic and the North Sea, has become a hotbed of wave-energy researchand development, with the government last year approving a 40-megawattwave energy installation in the Shetland Islands. But a centralchallenge has proven to be the complexity of harnessing wave power,which has led to a host of designs, including writhing snake-likeattenuators, bobbing buoys, even devices mounted discreetly on the oceanfloor that work by exploiting differences in pressure as a wave passesby. Some devices generate the electricity on the spot and transmit itvia undersea cables to shore, while others pass the mechanical energy ofthe wave along to land before turning it into electrical energy, thegovernments around the world spent millions on the wave energydevelopments, US departure of energy has funded $116, 270,344 on waveenergy harnessing development between 2008-2014, what is the return ?zero, what about Unite Kingdom, EU they failed too, the reasons for thefailure are that all those designs started from wave not from turbine,so they become so complicated to convert the wave energy with at leastfour conversions between electrical generator and wave energy, thoseconversion mechanisms cannot survive in the server ocean conditionswithout constant repair or replacement, the commercial-nocommercial-scale wave power operations are just dream for now in 2021.

So the industry has long sought means of improving the performance ofthose machines by improving the efficiency without much success, thelisted problems are still with us.

In conclusion, insofar as I am aware, no such a system is formerlydeveloped with new machines to solve the problems.

SUMMARY

This invention provides a simple, robust, reliable and versatile turbinesystem based on shaft-less twin rotor turbomachinery, it providesrenewable energy solution with wind as well as ocean wave energy togenerate electrical power at much low cost, it is designed with themodulation, so vortical wind turbine as well as the wave turbine can beused together or separately, the vortical wind turbine is much compactabout ⅔ or less in comparison with the conventional turbine but with thesame amount of output, so they are deplorable in various places fordifferent demands with various modules, while the wave turbine can beinstalled with existing coastal wind farms or deplorable with variousmodules, the wave turbine system has a simple, robust structure for thebuoyant housing, the housing holding electrical control unit hasmultiple hinge to hold the wave turbine with 360 degree rotary freedomas well as wire the wave turbines and to generate electricity as long asthe seawater pass the wave turbines regardless direction, because thewave turbine moves with the wave with 360 degree which are perpendicularto the wave turbine through port, so the wave turbine system is relativestationary to the wave turbine pass port, so the wave turbine canproduce electricity constantly, finally the heart of the system is theshaft less twin rotor turbomachinery, it has the tubing rotor assemblyas a single moving part include internal blade sets and external bladesets and generate radial fluid movements as well as axial fluidmovements, this unpresented mechanism create new solutions for thechallenges the conventional turbomachinery faced, the turbomachinerygreatly reduce the weights and increase fluid capacity and efficiencyand reliability.

Accordingly, besides objects and advantages of the present inventiondescribed in the above patent, several objects and advantages of thepresent invention are:

(a) To eliminate shaft for the turbomachinery, such a machine has no anobstacle in flow passage and much less weight and increase efficiencyand reliability.(b) To provide a compact and efficient wind turbine, so it can providesufficient electricity for a local community at much lower cost withless weight and land usage and smaller size.(c) To provide a vortical wind turbine with most robust, efficient bladedesign, it has a larger effect diameter than the blade diameter, it isdurable for specified number of usage with less maintenance, reliablefeature and constructed with less material, turbulence with balancedstructure, so the turbines are subject less side load and vibration.(c) To provide an optimized flow characters of the turbine, such aturbine can produce a designed electricity.(d) To provide seal device with ability to sustain rotary speed underhigh wave or wind. so such a seal device not only reduce the energywaste but also prevent seawater or rain to corrode the internal parts ofthe turbine.(e) To provide a universal bearing, such a bearing can support radial aswell as axial loads and can be sealed and self-lubricated, so thebearing can stand for high side load under high wind or wave and beeasily installed and replaced under a designed period.(h) To provide a commercially available and workable wave energy system,such a system can provide sufficient electricity with a simple, low costand robust structure, it can be retrofitted with existing ocean windfarm as well as an independent unit and can be deployed to coastal areaor fixed vehicles or constructions in the server sea or riverconditions.(j) To provide a thermal efficient machine, so the machine can producemore energy at the highest efficiency with simple structures andmaterials, less or no cooling system

Still further objects and advantages will become apparent from study ofthe following description and the accompanying drawings.

DRAWINGS Drawing Figures

FIG. 1 is an ISO view of a wave/wind turbine system with one windturbine and one wave turbine system for harnessing wind and waveenergies constructed in accordance with this invention.

FIG. 2 is a front view of the wind turbine FIG. 1

FIG. 3 is a cross sectional view of wind turbine of FIG. 2 along lineA-A.

FIG. 4 an ISO view of tubing rotor assembly FIG. 2.

FIG. 5 is a “C” detail views of blades and joint ring of FIG. 4

FIG. 6 is a “B” detail views of blades of FIG. 4.

FIG. 6a is an ISO view of an satellite geared electrical generator ofFIG. 4.

FIG. 7 is a ISO view of wave turbine system FIG. 1.

FIG. 8 is a front view of the wave turbine system FIG. 1

FIG. 9 is a cross sectional view of turbine system FIG. 8 along lineC-C.

FIG. 10 is a “D” detail views of turbine system hinge of FIG. 9.

FIG. 11 is a front view of an wave turbine system of FIG. 1

FIG. 12 is a side view of wave turbine system of FIG. 11

FIG. 13 is a cross sectional view of the system of FIG. 11 along lineA-A.

FIG. 14 is an ISO, cut view of a tubing rotor assembly of FIG. 11

FIG. 15 is a “D” detail view of seal ring assembly of the assembly ofFIG. 14.

FIG. 16 is a “D” detail view of a bearing of the assembly of FIG. 14.

DESCRIPTION

FIGS. 1-16 illustrate a wave/wind turbine system 10 has a wave turbinesubsystem 40 with multiple shaft-less twin rotor turbines 100, onevortical wind turbine subsystem 20 with a shaft-less twin rotor turbine100 a and a support tower 21 and three anchors 48 for producingelectricity by harnessing wind, raining, wave and tidal energy as arenewable power source.

Referring FIGS. 2-6, the wind turbine subsystem 110 a has at least twoball bearings 190, two seal ring assemblies 180, a body assembly 102 ahaving a main port 105 a defined by an inlet port 104 a and an outletport 104 a′, a twin tubing rotor assembly 150 a movably disposed in thebody assembly 102 a has a left rotor 103 a, a right rotor 103 a′ and aunion 152 a with internal blades 168 a, the body assembly 102 a has aleft body assembly 108 a having a left rotor bore 116 a engaged with theleft rotor 103 a to form a first left chamber 160 a and a second leftchamber 162 a and a right body assembly 108 a′ having a right rotor bore116 a′ engaged with the right rotor 103 a′ to form a first right chamber160′ and a second right chamber 162 a′, the second left chamber 162 aand the second left chamber 162 a′ can be constructed together orseparately, the left body assembly 108 a has a a front fixed wheel 118 ahaving multiple satellite electrical devices 117, each satelliteelectrical devices 117 has a satellite gear ring 119, while the rightbody assembly 108 a′ has a front fixed wheel 118 a′ having multiplesatellite electrical devices 117, the left rotor 103 a has a frontrotary wheel 153 with helical blades 156 a and a segment ring 155 ahaving multiple blades 154 a, each blade 154 a has a C tip 155 a toprevent eddy flows and a back rotary wheel 169 a with a gear ringrespectively engaged with the satellite gear rings 119, so the satelliteelectrical devices 117 eliminate the troublesome large gearbox in theconventional wind turbine, so they can be modulated, the first leftchamber 160 a, the first right chamber 160 a′ can be used to circulateincoming air with additional external rotary wheel with blades ascooling chamber for the electrical devices.

Each of the rotors 103 a,103 a′ is respectively disposed in the leftbody assembly 108 a and the right body assembly 108 a′, the union 152 awith a set of internal blades 168 a supports both the rotors 103 a,103a′ statically or dynamically, the union 152 a is a key for productmodulation, each rotors 103 a,103 a′ housings can be made as standardproducts, then based on applications, the union 152 a can be increasedor decreased by the length or inside diameter or outside diameter andconstructed as an integral part by welding, press fit gluing or with oneor two ball bearings 190 for independent control of the rotors 103 a,103a′ or with a magnetic coupling in a hybrid manner, the union 152 a canbe made out of different materials form that of the rotors 103,103′, theright rotor 103′ has the same arrangement as the left tubing rotor 103,the union 152 a can be constructed to support statically the rotors 103a,103 a′ as an integral component, or as an independent part to supportboth the rotors 103 a,103 a′ with two ball bearings 190 dynamically orin a hybrid manner with magnetic coupling, when left incoming winds flowat the inlet 104 a dividing into three streams, a first stream flowthrough main bore 105 a to both rotor 103 a,103 a′, a second streamflows through blades 156 a to drive the left rotor 103 a and right rotor103 a′ a third stream flows through blades 154 a, 154 a′ to drive theleft rotor 103 a, the right rotor 103 a′, so if the left rotor 103 arotates clockwise with left hand blade and the right rotor 103 a′rotates anticlockwise with right hand blades, then a pair of rotarystreams is formed, according the Newtown third law, so the left rotor103 a and the right rotor 103 a′ would have similar speed or the samespeed, if they are identical, the efficiency can reach 85%, moreover theblades 156 a and 154 a would generate vortical wind stream in the inlet104 a, so a diameter of the vortical wind stream is much larger than adiameter of wheel 153 a, there is no a single wind turbine in the worldhas the those features and benefits.

Referring FIGS. 7-16, the wave turbine subsystem 40 includes a floathousing assembly 41, a tower adapter 42, three anchors 47 to hold thewave turbine system 140 regardless if the tower 21 is float or not, andmultiple wave turbines 100, the tower adapter 42 has an electricalcontrol hub extending to a float vessel 45 by linked hollow bars 43, thefloat vessel 45 generates buoyance with contained gas, and has multiplehinges holders 44, the float vessel 45 has many structures includingtoroid pipes and polygonal pipes, each hinge holder 44 has a hinge hole47 and wire hole 46 extending to the float vessel 45, so electricalwires can pass from the tower adapter 42 to each wave turbine 100, thehinges holders 44 can be constructed with the float vessel 45 staticallyor rotatably, the float vessel has the strongest structures against theviolent wave impact among all existing wave turbine and not only providethe buoyancy, but also has more mobility to harness wave energy in alldirections, the wave turbine 100 includes one joint shaft 120 disposedin the hinge hole 46 or two joint shafts 120 disposed respectively inthe hinge holes 46 between hinge holders 44, so each of the waveturbines 100 can rotate 360 degree with two hinge holes 46, or each ofthe wave turbines 100 can rotate 360 degree with one hinge hole 46 androtate 360 degree around a rotatable hinge holder 44, the wave turbines100 can generate power constantly 24/7 as long as submerged into wavewater, and a length of the wave turbine 100 is shorter than a length ofthe wave, a diameter of the turbine 100 is shorter than the wave height,moreover the two ratios between the wave and the turbines 100 are solarge, so almost every wave turbine 100 in the float vessel 45 cangenerate full power regardless of direction of the wave, so far there isno single wave turbine in the world with the simple, robust mechanismwith only one conversion between liquid wave and an electrical generator!!

the wave turbine comprises at least two ball bearings 190, two seal ringassemblies 180, a body assembly 102 having a main port 105 defined by aninlet port 104 and an outlet port 104′ and a left electrical device 117having a left electrical stator 159 and a left electrical rotor 158, anda right electrical device 117′ having a right electrical stator 159 anda right electrical rotor 158, a twin tubing rotor assembly 150 movablydisposed in the body assembly 102 has a left rotor 103, a right rotor103′ and a union 152 with multiple axial holes 169 between the leftrotor 103 and the right rotor 103′, the body assembly 102 has a leftbody assembly 108 having a left rotor bore 116 engaged with the leftrotor 103 to form a first left chamber 160 and a second left chamber 162to receive the left electrical device 117, and a right body assembly108′ having a right rotor bore 116′ engaged with the right rotor 103′ toform a first right chamber 160′ and a second right chamber 162′ toreceive the right electrical device 117′, the second left chamber 162and the second left chamber 162′ can be constructed together orseparately, the left body assembly 108 has a bearing bore 110, a sealring bore 112, a front fixed wheel 118 with the electrical stator 159,while the right body assembly 108′ has a bearing step bore 110′, a sealring bore 112′, a front fixed wheel 118′ with the electrical stator159′, the left rotor 103 has a step bore 170 with a left wall 157 and afront external rotary wheel 153 with multiple blades in the first leftrotor chamber 160, a back external rotary wheel 158 with the electricalrotor engaged with the electrical stator 158 in the second left rotorchamber 162, and the right rotor 103′ has the same arrangement as theleft tubing rotor 103, the union 152 can be constructed to supportstatically the rotors 103,103′ as an integral component, or as anindependent part to support both the rotors 103,103′ with two ballbearings 190 dynamically or in a hybrid manner with magnetic coupling,in addition the front external rotary wheel 153 and a back externalrotary wheel 158 can switch positions between the first left rotorchamber 160 and the second left rotor chamber 162, so the right frontexternal rotary wheel 153′ and a back external rotary wheel 158′ can dothe same, the left body assembly 108 has a conical extension 107 havingmultiple high power holes 106 between the extension 107 and the firstleft rotor chamber 160 or the second left rotor chamber 162, the rightbody assembly 108′ has a conical extension 107′ having multiple highpower holes 106′ between the extension 107′ and the first right rotorchamber 160′ or the second right rotor chamber 162′ Each of the rotors103,103′ is respectively disposed in the left body assembly 108 and theright body assembly 108′, the union 152 with a set of internal blades168 supports both the rotors 103,103′ statically to impel incoming flowsor dynamically to mix incoming flows, the union 152 is a key for productmodulation, each rotors 103,103′ housings can be made as standardproducts, then based on applications, the union 152 can be increased ordecreased by the length or inside diameter or outside diameter andconstructed as an integral part by welding, press fit gluing or with oneor two ball bearings 190 for independent control of the rotors 103,103′or with a magnetic coupling in a hybrid manner, the union 152 can bemade out of different materials form that of the rotors 103.

Tests for this invention were conducted with a conventional rotor havingrange of 1 to 12 blades, there are two extreme cases, (1) as the rotorspeeds up with the 12 blades, the blades soon become a wall, so there isalmost no flow to pass (2) while the rotor speeds up with 0 to 1 blade,there is almost no flow to pass due to lack of converting power from therotor, why did the rotor cause the two results ?because the conventionalrotor is designed to add blade angularly so when the rotor speed up,eventually the number of blades would block the flow path, the sameproblems happen in the wind turbine blades as well as marine propellerblades, moreover if the rotor convert all 100% given power to the flow,then the rotor would stop, so the conventional rotor never reach highefficiency more than 50% to 55%.

The two zones are radially designed and solve the conventional rotorinherent problem, the high power zone is designed to pass high powerflow from a large part of diameter of the blades 167 and more number ofblade, which generate more power, some of the incoming flows is impelledup into the first left rotor chamber 160 through the radial holes 171,some of the incoming flows is impelled forward in the main port 105 inthe low power zone, while the left rotor 103 also has multiple radialholes 171′ and the left rotary wheel with axial blades 153 on anexternal surface 164 to further impeller the upcoming flow in the firstrotor chamber 160, then push back into the main port 105 through theradial holes 171′, then the high velocity flow get back into the lowpower zone, so a perfect vortical flow is formed between the inlet 104and the radial holes 171′ as the rotor 103 speeds up with 80% to 90 ofinput wave power, the pressure gradient is formed between the low powerzone and high power zone according to Bernoulli equation, as a resultthe rotor 103 would suck more flows than the diameter of main port 105with the conical extension 106, so incoming flows pass the union 152either with or without a mixer 168 and reach at the right rotor 103′,the whole process repeats again like in the left rotor 103, the incomingflows reach at the first right chamber 160′ through radial holes 171″ aswell as the axial holes 152 and are impelled through blades 153′ as wellas pass blades 167′, and become a high pressurized and high flow rateoutgoing flows, due to the flow streams from radial holes 171′″ at theoutlet 104′ with the extension 106′, the incoming flow fast expand, morepowerful feature is that the blades wheel 167 and the blades wheel 167′can be constructed respectively with left or right or one left and oneright, so if the rotor 103 rotor rotates clockwise with the left bladeswheel 167, while the rotor 103′ rotates anticlockwise with the rightblade wheel 167′, the incoming flows would pass from the inlet 104 tothe outlet 104′, if the arrangement is the other way around, then theincoming flows would pass from the outlet 104′ to the inlet 104, why itis so important feature, because it would great reduce noise, vibrationand cavitation as well as wake rotation in the downstream to disturb seawile life.

A seal test for this invention was conducted with a tester having acylinder bore engaged with a shaft by a radial gap, the tester has aninlet end with a pressurized fluid and a an outlet end(pressure=force/area=force×distance/area×distance=work/volume of thegap=a fluid work density), so we know the leak of flow because the flowdoes the work, so if the flow does not work, there is no leak !, now weknow there are two conditions which cause leak together, a gap and apressure difference, the test was conducted with the tester having aconical bore engaged with a conical shaft by a radial gap, the shaft isdriven by a motor, as the motor speed up or the conical angle increaseor the gap reduces, the pressurized fluid would move slower and slowerfrom the inlet to the out let and eventually stop.

The left rotor 103 has a left wall 157 with a bore 170 between the firstleft chamber 160 and the second left chamber 162, the right rotor 103′has a right wall 157′ with a bore 170′ between the first right chamber160′ and the second right chamber 162′, one of the seal assemblies 180is disposed between the bore 170′ and a body bore 112′ of the right bodyassembly 108′, the seal ring assembly 180 has at least one fixed V sealring 182 with a conical surface 185 and at least one dynamic V seal ring183 with a mated conical surface 186 engaged with the surface 185 inaxial directions for dynamic seals, the fixed V seal ring 182 installedwith the seal ring bore 112 of the body assembly 108 with a press fithas a low gap 188 with the step bore 170′ of the right wall 159′, thedynamic V seal ring 183 installed with the right wall 159′ with a pressfit has a top gap 187 with the bore 112, the seal ring assembly 180 hasat least one groove 184 between the fixed seal ring 182 and thedynamitic seal ring 183 to collect fluid or sealant, in addition, asecond of the V seal rings 183,182 can be added to provide springfunctions or heat exchange, so as the rotor 103′ rotates, the fixed sealring 182 stays with the body assembly 108′, while the dynamic seal ring183 stays with the rotator 103′, there are three factors; centrifugalforce, tangential speed, rotational speed with the dynamic V seal ring183, a speed of OD of seal rings 182,183 is more higher than that of IDof seal ring 182,183, the rotors 103, 103 is defined by X and Ydirections, X is an axle of the rotors 103 and 103, the centrifugalforce is defined by Y direction, the interface between V wedge rings182, 183 is defined by an angle from X, as the seal test indicates asthe angle change away from Y direction, the leakage gradually stops, sothe dynamic V seal ring 183 would not carry fluid without any blade whenrotating, while the Fixed V seal rings 182 is stationary, there is nostable gap to be established, moreover the boundary layers of fluid onseal rings 182,183 would remain, as Bernoulli's equation states thathigher speed, lower the pressure, so the fluid in the top gap 187 wouldnot go to the low gap 188 due to a negative pressure gradient, while thefluid at the low gap 188 can go to the top gap 187, but it must getthrough the interfaces between surfaces 185 and 186, there is a littlemass of the fluid to be effected by the centrifugal force or fluidpressure, or the fluid can do a little work, as we know the formula(pressure=force/area=force×distance/area×distance=work/volume of thegap), it would not move up, moreover the groove 184 is a fluidequalizer, so even the fluid passing through the low gap 188 would stayat the groove 184 due to fluid surface tension, if the fluid is a gas,then sealant between surfaces 185 and 186 would provide liquid seal aswell, sealant can be used for high temperature or cryogenic conditions,so no fluid can leak from top gap 187 to low gap 188 or vice versa, theseal assembly 180 is a positive seal to sustain loads and can be used asa static seal in high vibration applications, while most of springenergized seal ring or shroud seal ring cannot sustain the severeloading even for static seals in high speed or high vibration machines,because they just cannot keep constantly seal contract around 360 degreeor pulse dynamic leakage.

The left body assembly 108 has a bearing bore 110, the left rotor 103has a step bore 161, the right body assembly 108′ has a bearing bore110′, the right rotor 103′ has a step bore 161′, the two ball bearings190 are respectively disposed between the bearing bore 110 and the stepbore 161 and between the bearing bore 110′ and the step bore 161′, theball bearing 190 has a left ring 191 and a right ring 191′ and multipleballs 196, a left wedge insert ring 195 and right wedge insert ring195′, the left ring 191 has a conical surface 192 and a ball groove 193,the right ring 191′ has a conical surface 192′ and a ball groove 193′,the multiple balls 196 are disposed between ball grooves 193′,193, theleft insert ring 195 and the right insert ring 195′ respectivelydisposed between wedge surfaces 192,192′ have at least one set of roundslots to position the balls 196, the insert rings 195,195′ are made outof soft materials including bronze, aluminum, engineering plastics withsealant or grease or the fluid like lox or fuel are placed between leftring and right rings 191,191′, as the twin tubing rotor assembly 150rotates, insert ring 195,195′ are disposed between the rings 191,191′ toprevent sealant or grease 199 or other fluids from coming out, the sealtheory is the similar to seal ring assembly 190, so the ball bearing 190not only can support radial and axial loads, but also provide seals,additionally because diameter of the step bore 161 is much larger thanany shaft diameter, so there are more balls, more contact surfaces tosupport loads than the conventional ball bearing, the overheat andvibration are eliminated or reduced greatly.

Although the description above contains many specifications, theseshould not be construed as limiting the scope of the invention but asmerely providing illustration of some of the presently preferredembodiments of this invention.

Thus, the scope of the invention should be determined by the appendedclaims and their legal equivalents, rather than by the examples given.

CONCLUSION AND IMPACT

First, the shaft less twin rotor turbine has the highest power densityand efficiency over the conventional wind or wave turbines, if we usethe same length and the diameter to design both the conventionalturbines e and this turbomachine, this turbomachine is a clear winner,because the conventional turbomachine is an area base machine, thisturbomachine is a volume base machine, so it produces more power, forthe wind turbine, it pass the Betz limit, it can use up 75 to 95% inputpower without negative effect, because the pair of clockwise andanticlockwise of floe streams between the left rotor 103 a and the rightrotor 103 a′, this wind turbine provide the best performance ever withhigh efficiency greater than 59% as a new benchmark and a high densitypower by disruptive innovation beyond imagination. The age old Power=½CpA*V{circumflex over ( )}3 should become P=½ Cp (A−A1)*V{circumflex over( )}3 to express true power and validate all turbines in the market.With this innovative design, the center area is open to allow more flow,the area doubles A. Total=Ax2 due to the twin rotors, A and V becomeeven larger due to the vortical mechanism resulting in the highestpower. For the conventional turbines, A and V were unchangeable for agiven turbines due to the physical size and natural stream velocity,moreover the area-based power generation has low density, wasting a lotof materials and space, while a volume-based power generation has highpower density, so Power density=P*L/A*L, L=length, P*L=work, A*L=volume,all those innovative features create an efficiency leap this turbine canuse up 85% of the converting power, because there is no flow blockageissue at the center lower zone regardless the speed of rotor or numberof blades, the peak performance would be obtained in a much easy waywith a pair of clockwise rotary fluid stream and an anticlockwise rotaryfluid stream and with the high power fluid in the high power zone andhigh flow rate at the low power zone, this turbines fully uses up thetotal volume from the center thrust bore at low power and high powerzone, those turbines have revolved the fundamental problems theconventional turbines faced with and even surpass in all, as thefollowing; (a) Shaft less design, it profoundly change the history ofturbomachinery, from drivetrain to blade designs. First the shaft lessdesign open up the center passage to the top limit and replace the shaftwith tubing rotor, second according to the Machinery's Handbook 27thEdition at page 307 Example: A 4-inch shaft, with a 2-inch hole throughit, has a weight 25 percent less than a solid 4-inch shaft, but itsstrength is decreased only 6.25 percent.

(2) Drive train design. Drive trains include first “one to one” type, ithas the simplest conversion with the smart drive train between turbinerotor/electrical rotor to electrical stator, again because of shaft-lessturbomachine technology, so twin wave turbine with the shaft-lessturbomachine technology become only commercially suitable wave turbine,second one is one to many type and has 3 conversions from the rotor tomultiple satellite, so it replaces the troublesome gearbox, the drivetrain can act as a resultant transmission, it not only optimize inputwith output, eliminate pitch control system, but also revolve overheatissue with natural water cooling system and eliminate the electricalcooling system and the brake system, finally wave fluid or wind can flowboth directions front or back and generate power.(3) Blades design. Dual energy zone technology is a game changer, itbroke all rules based on wing and lift theories with a goal to maximizeoutput torque and minimizing material and drag. So many contrastfeatures between the bladed ring and conventional individual blade from“a central hole v. a center block”, “a root ring v. a large root”, “alarge tip mass and area v. small mass and area” and “radical division vangular division”. Solid blade vs. hallow blade. The bottom line is (a)that bladed ring to maximize output torque from the fluid energy in thehigh energy zone and release the used fluid in the low energy zone, theblades to minimize torque in high energy zone, maximize torque betweenhigh energy zone and low energy zone, and release used fluid at highenergy zone (2) the bladed ring against a single blade is designed in asynergic manner, so it greatly reduce materials and increase strengthand efficiency (3) the ring structured blades not eliminate tip eddy butalso make modular design possible to reduce cost and more bladespossible in high energy zone to make it more efficient.

(4) Safety Issue

All safety issues are addressed with solutions, the drive train underabnormal conditions, two safety barriers and satellite electricaldevices are design to protect the vertical turbine from high wind bycontrol number of satellite electrical devices, self-starting design,while the risk of electrical fires are minimized by two sealing solutionand cooling systems, Y seal ring assembly and sealable bearings aredesigned to provide robust seals to prevent shaft dynamical leaks inbi-direction, while cooling chamber blades acts fan to cooling theelectrical devices and eliminate any hydraulic fluid fire. It providedwith the best natural cooling solution. the noise and turbulent wakesare greatly reduced by the twin rotors and bladed rings with C type tipsFinally the wind turbine with bladed rings as well as the verticalturbines would great reduce the risk of killing birds.

(5) scalability. The modular design lays a foundation for scalability ofall turbine parts and productions, all rotor and bladed ring sizes,nacelles and drive trains are based on the existing ASME and API pipeschedule, so they have much low cost and high availability with existingsupply chains and facilities.

(6) Usability Include Sustainability and Sealabilty

4 . . . 1 Sustainability The shaft less twin rotor wave turbine has twokey sustainable features: the single conversion and the float vessel hastoroid pipe assemblies and polygonal pipe assemblies with hinge joint,those features can make the turbine sustainable for severe river orocean conditions, turbine base can compare with,4.2 Sealabilty The sealability is provided with Y seal ring and thesealable ball bearings, the sealable ball bearings not only resolvedynamic leakage on the rotors but also the weather seal for the windturbines against rain, snow or sand wind.

(7) Profitability is a Key for Commercial Success

(A) High scalability is based on the modular design for a single part,single turbine or single turbine system, they are all scalable. Therotor, alternator, gear train designs are based on a few basic sizes, sothe tooling, fixtures, inventory can be reduced greatly.

(B) Economics of scale Instead of a large turbine, this turbine systemincludes multiple small turbines, the cost as well as LCOE would bereduced as the number of part produced increase from one to 24 or 48 or100. As an example 5 Mw turbines can be made with multiple 100 Kw, 500Kw, 1000 Kw or 1 Mw small turbines.

(C) Synergy cost Every turbine system shares a control box and cables,in and out inverters, tower and electrical devices, every wave turbineshares the same base assembly, each rotor assembly shares the samenacelle, every rotor share the same union.

I claim:
 1. A turbine system has at least one subsystem, the at leastone subsystem has at least one turbine, the at least one turbine a bodyassembly, a twin tubing rotor assembly movably disposed in said bodyassembly by means of at least two ball bearings disposed between saidtwin tubing rotor assembly and said body assembly for providing dynamicsupports, and by means of at least two seal assemblies disposed betweensaid twin tubing rotor assembly and said body assembly for providingseals, said body assembly has a left body assembly having at least onefixed wheel and a body bore and a right body assembly having at leastone fixed wheel and a body bore, said left body assembly has one ofplurality of structures including one piece structure and two-piecestructure, said right body assembly has one of plurality of structuresincluding one piece structure and two-piece structure, said twin tubingrotor assembly has a left rotor having a tubing housing having at leastone internal rotary wheel and at least one external rotary wheel and atubing bore, a right rotor having a tubing housing having at least oneinternal rotary wheel and at least one external rotary wheel and atubing bore, and a union to support said left rotor and said rightrotor, said union has one of plurality of supporting methods including(1) two static supports (2) two dynamic supports (3) one static supportand one dynamic support (4) at least one hybrid support, said staticsupport is defined by one of plurality of methods including welding,press fitting, gluing and bolting, said dynamic support is defined byone of the at least two ball bearings disposed between said union andone of said left rotor and said right rotor, the at least one hybridsupport is defined by a magnetic coupling, each of the at least two ballbearings has a left ring and a right ring and multiple balls disposedbetween said left ring and said right ring, a left wedge insert ring anda right wedge insert ring respectively disposed between said left ringand said right ring, said left ring has a left conical surface and aleft ball groove, said right ring has a right conical surface and aright ball groove, said multiple balls are respectively engaged withsaid left ball groove and said right ball groove, said left insert ringand said right insert ring are respectively disposed between said leftconical surface and said right conical surface, said left ring and saidright ring have one of plurality of materials including magneticmaterials and nonmagnetic materials, the at least two ball bearings hasfluids for providing seals, each of the at least two seal ringassemblies disposed between said tubing bore and said body bore withpress fits has at least one fixed V shape seal ring having a conicalsurface and at least one dynamic V seal ring having a mated conicalsurface engaged with said conical surface of the at least one fixed Vshape seal ring in one of plurality methods including an axial methodand a radial method for providing dynamic as well as static seals, saideach of the at least two seal ring assemblies has a top gap defined bysaid body bore and the at least one dynamic V shape seal ring, and a lowgap defined by said tubing bore and the at least one fixed V shape sealring, said each of the at least two seal ring assemblies has at leastone groove between the at least one fixed V shape seal ring and the atleast one dynamic V shape seal ring, said turbine system has at leastone of plurality of power supplies including (a) wind power (b) rainingpower (c) wave power (d) tidal power (e) river stream power (f) anynatural fluid stream, said turbine system has at least one electricaldevice having an electrical stator and an electrical rotor.
 2. Theturbine system of claim 1, wherein the at least one subsystem has asupport tower and the at least one turbine having said body assemblyhaving a main port defined by an inlet port, an outlet port and the atleast one electrical device, said left body assembly has a left rotorbore receiving said left rotor to form a first left rotor chamber and asecond left rotor chamber to receive the at least one electrical device,said right assembly has a right rotor bore receiving said right rotor toform a first right rotor chamber and a second right rotor chamber toreceive the at least one electrical device, said left body assembly hasa first of the at least one fixed wheel, said left rotor has a first ofthe at least one internal rotary wheel having blades with an insidediameter dividing said main port into a high power zone and a lowerpower between said inlet port and said outlet port, and a first of theat least one external rotary wheel having a first set of blades and asegment ring having a second set of blades, each of said second setblades has C shape tip, a second of the at least one external rotarywheel having blades having blades disposed in said first left rotorchamber and at least one right set of holes communicating between saidmain port and said first left rotor chamber, said right body assemblyhas a first of the at least one fixed wheel, said right rotor has afirst of the at least one internal rotary wheel having blades and afirst of the at least one external rotary wheel having a first set ofblades and a segment ring having a second set of blades, each of saidsecond set blades has C shape tip, a second of the at least one externalrotary wheel having blades having blades disposed in said first rightrotor chamber and at least one right set of holes communicating betweensaid main port and said first right rotor chamber, said union has aninternal rotary wheel having blades and one of plurality of multiple ofholes forms including multiple axial non-through holes and multipleaxial through holes between said left rotor and said right rotor.
 3. Theturbine system of claim 1, wherein the at least one subsystem has asupport tower and the at least one turbine having said body assemblyhaving a main port defined by an inlet port, an outlet port and the atleast one electrical device, said left body assembly has a left rotorbore receiving said left rotor to form a first left rotor chamber toreceive the at least one electrical device and a second left rotorchamber, said right assembly has a right rotor bore receiving said rightrotor to form a first right rotor chamber to receive the at least oneelectrical device and a second right rotor chamber, said left bodyassembly has a first of the at least one fixed wheel, said left rotorhas a first of the at least one internal rotary wheel having blades withan inside diameter dividing said main port into a high power zone and alower power between said inlet port and said outlet port, and a first ofthe at least one external rotary wheel having a first set of blades anda segment ring having a second set of blades, each of said second setblades has C shape tip, a second of the at least one external rotarywheel having blades having blades disposed in said second left rotorchamber and at least one right set of holes communicating between saidmain port and said second left rotor chamber, said right body assemblyhas a first of the at least one fixed wheel, said right rotor has afirst of the at least one internal rotary wheel having blades and afirst of the at least one external rotary wheel having a first set ofblades and a segment ring having a second set of blades, each of saidsecond set blades has C shape tip, a second of the at least one externalrotary wheel having blades having blades disposed in said second rightrotor chamber and at least one right set of holes communicating betweensaid main port and said second right rotor chamber, said union has aninternal rotary wheel having blades and one of plurality of multiple ofholes forms including multiple axial non-through holes and multipleaxial through holes between said left rotor and said right rotor.
 4. Theturbine system of claim 1, wherein the at least one subsystem has afloat housing assembly having a float vessel and the at least oneturbine, said float vessel has multiple hinges holders, each of saidmultiple hinge holders has at least one hinge hole and multiple wireholes extending to said float vessel, said float vessel has one ofplurality of structures including toroid pipe assemblies and polygonalpipe assemblies, said each of said multiple hinge holder can beconstructed with said float vessel in one of plurality methods includinga static method and a movable method, the at least one turbine has atleast one hinge shaft movably disposed in the at least one hinge holeand one of plurality of structures including an independent structureand a part of the at least one turbine and a part of said each of saidmultiple hinge holders.
 5. The turbine system of claim 4, wherein the atleast one turbine has said body assembly has a main port defined by aninlet port, an outlet port, and the at least one electrical device, saidleft body assembly has a left extension, a left rotor bore receivingsaid left rotor to form a first left rotor chamber and a second leftrotor chamber to receive the at least one electrical device, said rightassembly has a right extension, a right rotor bore receiving said rightrotor to form a first right rotor chamber and a second right rotorchamber to receive the at least one electrical device, said left bodyassembly has a first of the at least one fixed wheel in said second leftrotor chamber, said left rotor has a first of the at least one internalrotary wheel having blades with an inside diameter dividing said mainport into a high power zone and a lower power between said inlet portand said outlet port, and a first of the at least one external rotarywheel having blades disposed in said first left rotor chamber and atleast one left set of holes communicating between said main port andsaid first left rotor chamber, and a second of the at least one externalrotary wheel disposed movably in said second left rotor chamber, saidright body assembly has a first of the at least one fixed wheel disposedin said first right rotor chamber, said right rotor has a first of theat least one internal rotary wheel having blades and a first of the atleast one external rotary wheel having blades disposed in said firstright rotor chamber and at least one right set of holes communicatingbetween said main port and said first right rotor chamber, a second ofthe at least one external rotary wheel disposed in said second rightrotor chamber, said left body assembly also has multiple holes betweensaid first left rotor chamber and said left extension, said right bodyassembly also has multiple holes between said first right rotor chamberand said right extension, said union has an internal rotary wheel havingblades and one of plurality of multiple of holes forms includingmultiple axial non-through holes and multiple axial through holesbetween said left rotor and said right rotor.
 6. The turbine system ofclaim 4, wherein the at least one turbine has said body assembly has amain port defined by an inlet port, an outlet port, at least one hingeshaft having multiple through holes and the at least one electricaldevice, said left body assembly has a left extension, a left rotor borereceiving said left rotor to form a first left rotor chamber to receivethe at least one electrical device and a second left rotor chamber, saidright body assembly has a right extension, a right rotor bore receivingsaid right rotor to form a first right rotor chamber to receive the atleast one electrical device and a second right rotor chamber, said leftbody assembly has a first of the at least one fixed wheel having saidleft electrical stator, said left rotor has a first of the at least oneinternal rotary wheel having blades with an inside diameter dividingsaid main port into a high power zone and a lower power between saidinlet port and said outlet port, a first of the at least one externalrotary wheel disposed in said first left rotor chamber, and a second ofthe at least one external rotary wheel having blades disposed in saidsecond left rotor chamber and at least left one set of holescommunicating between said main port and said second left rotor chamber,said left body assembly also has multiple holes between said secondrotor chamber and said left extension, said right body assembly has afirst of the at least one fixed wheel disposed in said second rightrotor chamber, said right rotor has a first of the at least one internalrotary wheel having blades and a first of the at least one externalrotary wheel movably disposed in said first right rotor chamber, asecond of the at least one external rotary wheel having blades disposedin said second right rotor chamber engaged with said left rotor and atleast one right set of holes communicating between said main port andsaid second right rotor chamber, said right body assembly also hasmultiple holes between said second right rotor chamber and said rightextension, said union has an internal rotary wheel having blades and oneof plurality of holes forms including multiple axial non-through holesand multiple axial through holes between said left rotor and said rightrotor.